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Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

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Length:
11 minutes
Released:
Feb 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How environmentally destructive is our thirst for coffee? Tim and the team investigate a claim that 29,000 coffee pods end up in landfill globally every minute with the help of Dr Ying Jiang, a senior lecturer in bioenergy from Cranfield University in the UK.
Released:
Feb 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4